Known issues ‐ Limitations

General limitations

• As of version 3.0.0, failed forget operations will appear as successful, since the backup backend reports them that way. An issue is opened at https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5254
• Cloud files exclusions work on regex basis which isn't optimal and might fail under certain linguistic scanarios. A patch has been pulled (and sponsored a bit by NetInvent) at https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4990 and shall be added to next restic version

GUI limitations

• When loading the GUI app under windows, we need to load then hide the console in order to be able to capture stdout for upgrades. This delays the GUI start a little.
• Closing the GUI via CTRL+C will trigger an error because of the GUI framework. A patch has been submitted at https://github.com/spyoungtech/FreeSimpleGUI/pull/51

Legacy limitations

When using windows-x86-legacy builds, there are two limitations that cannot be solved easily:

• Upgrading from the GUI will fail due to not being able to catch console input
• Excluding cloud files will work less well because we're using regexes in hope to catch cloud exclusions whereas restic 0.18 has an option to exclude cloud files